Free Trade and Social Welfare in Europe (eBook, PDF)

Explorations in the Long 20th Century
Redaktion: Coppolaro, Lucia; Mechi, Lorenzo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Analysing a number of particularly meaningful episodes and moments across eight chapters, this edited volume provides an overview of the multiple ways in which the liberalisation/welfare nexus has been addressed in Europe since the end of the 19th century and uncovers the political complexity of the issue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429659423
• Artikelnr.: 58563520

Autorenporträt

Lucia Coppolaro is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova Lorenzo Mechi is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies, University of Padova

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: free trade and social welfare in a long-term perspective; 1.
The state fights back: protecting the people, protecting the economy
(1880-1914); 2. From cradle to grave: the German trade union federation's
wage, welfare, and competitiveness program for the Weimar Republic; 3.
Social security versus global security: early debates about the
International Trade Organisation: liberalisation and full employment,
1945-48; 4. A precondition for economic integration? European debates on
social harmonisation in the 1950s and 1960s; 5. The International Chamber
of Commerce. The organisation of free-trade and market regulations from the
interwar period to the 1960s; 6. Creating a Social Europe or completing the
Single Market? Debates within the European Economic Community (1973-1986);
7. Resisting globalization? The TUC, the CBI and the politics of
protectionism in the UK textile industry in the 1970s; 8. Surfing (in and
out of) the globalization wave: labour standards during the GATT/WTO trade
negotiations (1947-1999); Conclusion